[bksvol-discuss] Re: Submitted: Everything is Miscellaneous: The Power of the New Digital Disorder
- From: "Evan Reese" <mentat1@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Wed, 10 Oct 2007 13:16:19 -0700
Sounds very interesting.
Thanks for sending that up.
Evan
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Power of the New Digital Disorder
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Everything is Miscellaneous: The Power of the New Digital Disorder
2007
Book of interest to those who like computers, information processing, and
library science.
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In Everything Is Miscellaneous, David Weinberger charts the new principles
of digital order that are remaking business, education, politics, science,
and culture. In his rollicking tour of the rise of the miscellaneous, he
examines why the Dewey decimal system is stretched to the breaking point,
how Rand McNally decides what information not to include in a physical map
(and why Google Earth is winning that battle), how Staples stores emulate
online shopping to increase sales, why your childrenʼs teachers will stop
having them memorize facts, and how the shift to digital music stands as the
model for the future in virtually every industry. Finally, he shows how by
"going miscellaneous," anyone can reap rewards from the deluge of
information in modern work and life.
Jim Nuttall--Michigan
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